Recurring ice hockey competition for women's national teams
IIHF European Women Championships Finland national women's ice hockey team at the Ravensburg Women's Air Canada Cup 2008
Status No longer active Genre Sports event Date(s) January–March Frequency Biannual Location(s) Various Inaugurated 1989; 35 years ago (1989 ) Most recent 1996; 28 years ago (1996 ) Organized by IIHF
The IIHF European Women Championships is a former international women's ice hockey tournament between ice hockey playing nations in Europe . Finland's national women's team won the championship title four times and Sweden women's national ice hockey team won it once in 1996, the final year the competition took place.
The European competition was organized by International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and was played from 1989 to 1996. An international women's ice hockey competition sanctioned by the IIHF began in 1990 . The European tournament ceased in 1997 because there would be either an IIHF World Women's Championships or an Olympic tournament every year.
History
The late 1980s marks the modern era of organized women's hockey when the first international invitational tournaments were beginning to become organized. The first IIHF European Women’s Championship, was played in Düsseldorf and Ratingen , Germany , in 1989. Team Finland was the first to win the championship.[1]
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World Championships
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